In the frames of the official visit to the Republic of Armenia the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited Yerevan Brandy Company. According to the visit program the delegation visited the ARARAT Museum of the Yerevan Brandy Company, where the members were introduced to the rich history, creation process as well as the new facets of the legendary Armenian brandy ARARAT.

The President stopped at the Peace Barrel, founded in 2001 in honor of the co-chairs of the Minsk Group of OSCE, visited factory in 2001. The barrel is called "Peace" as it will be opened when Karabakh conflict is resolved. Prokopis Pavlopoulos also signed in ARARAT memory book.

President Pavlopoulos also visited the Treasury of Yerevan Brandy Company, where a unique collection of ARARAT brandies is kept — from the very first samples of the previous century up to our days.

As part of tradition, a special barrel was founded in honor of the President of the Hellenic Republic.

It is worth mentioning that the special barrel offered to the previous President of Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias during his visit in 2014 is also kept at YBC.

The legendary Armenian brandy ARARAT is produced by Yerevan Brandy Company using traditional technology, the foundations of which were laid in 1887 by the brothers Nerses and Vasily Tairyants. ARARAT brandy is created using only local endemic high-quality Armenian grapes and crystal clear spring water. Precious ARARAT brandy is aged exclusively in barrels made of Caucasian oak, produced in their in-house cooperage plant. In 1998 Yerevan Brandy Company became a part of Pernod Ricard, an international company and the world’s number 2 in wines and spirits.